Kim Dingle (born 1951) is a
Los Angeles
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-based
contemporary artist
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working across painting,
sculpture
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, photography, found imagery, and
installation
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* Installation, military base
* Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity) Installation is a Christian li ...
. Her practice explores themes of American culture, history, and gender politics through both figurative and abstract approaches.
Early life
Dingle was born in
Pomona, California
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in 1951.
She received a
Master of Fine Arts
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is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
from
Claremont Graduate School
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in 1990 and a
Bachelor of Fine Arts
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Background
The Bachelor ...
from
Cal State Los Angeles Cal or CAL may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Cal'' (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty
* "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
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in 1988.
Work
Dingle works in series, some of her most well-known of which are her paintings of maps from memory, installations and paintings of Dingle's id doppelgänger Priss,
the saga of Fatty and Fudge, Home Depot coloring books (anyone can do it), painting blindfolded and the Crush painting series,
1990s
Her first mainstream solo exhibition was in 1991 at Richard/Bennett Gallery in Los Angeles. Titled ''Portraits from the Dingle Library'', it combined images of her mother, Cram, with portraits of iconic figures like
George Washington
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,
Queen Elizabeth II
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, and
George Foreman
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as a baby. Shortly after this, she created the "Paintings of the West" series employing vintage wallpaper and other imagery as her canvas along with a hundred curated drawings of "Horses by Teenage Girls". In ''Untitled (Girls with Dresspole)'' (1998), Dingle’s girls raise a flagpole "dresspole" (a long pole with a dress attached to the top) in a pose reminiscent of the famous photograph of soldiers
raising the flag on Iwo Jima.
Following works included the ''Never in School'' series, where Dingle introduced school mates, where characters ''Fatty'' and ''Fudge'' dominate in the absence of adults or boys.
Dingle created three-dimensional works featuring Fatty and Fudge in 1993 named "Priss".
These installations were first shown at
Blum & Poe
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Development
Blum & Poe was founded by Tim Blum and Jeff Poe in Santa Monica, California, in September 1994.
The inaugural exhibition in Santa Monica featured ...
in Los Angeles and Jack Tilton in New York; they also toured European museums with Sunshine Noir: the Art of Los Angeles and The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. Priss now resides in the permanent collections at
MOCA Los Angeles.
2000s
Priss later took the form of a 1963 MG midget car and was shown in the 2000
Whitney Biennial
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.
In 2000, with chef (actor and author) Aude Charles, Dingle opened a fine dining vegetarian restaurant in the middle of her studio and called it Fatty's. .
2010s
In 2017 and 2018 her work ''Painting Blindfolded'' was shown at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Sperone Westwater in New York City. Her piece ''I Will Be Your Server: The Lost Supper Paintings'' was exhibited at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects in 2019.
2020s
In 2021, artist
Jamian Juliano-Villani
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opened a gallery with artist
Billy Grant
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Animals
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* Billy (pygmy hippo), a pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge
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and musician
Ruby Zarsky called O’Flaherty’s in which the first show was a 50-year survey of Dingle's work. The artist
Lia Clay Miller notes that the show consisted of various renditions of Dingle's signature “Psycho-Tods." Dingle's work was included in the 2022 exhibition ''Women Painting Women'' at the
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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.
Collections
Her work is included in the collection of the
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, the
Laguna Art Museum
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,
the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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and the
National Gallery of Art
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, Washington.
References
External links
Official Website
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American contemporary artists
Postmodern artists
American women artists
Living people
People from Pomona, California
California State University, Los Angeles alumni
Claremont Graduate University alumni
Feminist artists
1951 births
21st-century American women